cleanface coney
WENT LEGIT
I hope I get both my grandparents' houses up there
aint you from southwest bro..they opening up a new school too
http://www.freep.com/article/20140723/NEWS01/307230167/New-high-school-southwest-Detroit
Detroit Public Schools
is opening a new high school in southwest Detroit this fall, as it increases education options in the area.The Escuela Preparatoria Academia de las Americas will feature a dual-language immersion curriculum
in English and Spanish. It is enrolling ninth graders now for the 2014-15 school year, and will eventually have ninth through 12th grades.The district has been working with residents and community agencies for months in planning the school, said spokesman Steve Wasko.
“Southwest Detroit is a very vibrant, highly stable and densely populated community, with very involved organizations and residents,” he said. “For DPS to bring all that together and to respond to the needs of those families
... is definitely in keeping with our strategic plan to serve the community by raising academic standards and ultimately establishing fiscal responsibility.”The school is an extension of the Academy of the Americas, a growing pre-K-8 school that offers a dual-language immersion program. About 65% of graduating eighth-graders go on to a district high school. The hope, Wasko said, is that extending the program through high school will retain more students.
The Escuela Preparatoria Academia de las Americas will be housed in an existing building, Wasko said. Officials have not announced the exact location, though.
Enrollment is projected to be 182 in 2014-15, and 500 students once all the grades are added.
Helena Lazo, project coordinator for Partnership for Youth at Southwest Solutions, has been participating in weekly planning meetings. More than a half dozen community agencies are involved in the process.
“We’re really enthusiastic because we have never been called as a community to give input like this,” she said. “We’re having real conversations about the curriculum and budget.
“Through this school, we’ll create a pipeline for our youth to have employment where dual language is needed.”
Wasko said the school will be largely funded by state per-pupil funding, with additional support from federal Title I and Title III grants and other sources.
Other DPS programming announced for southwest Detroit includes:
■ An adult English language learner program for Spanish and Arabic speakers at what will be called the Beard Southwest DetroitAdult Education
and Early Childhood Community Learning Center■ A fifth grade at Maybury Elementary School
■ A new gifted and talented program at Mark Twain School for Scholars
The new programming adds options for parents and students in an area that is considered highly competitive among school operators, largely because of its stable population. Detroit Public Schools has more than 7,800 students at 13 schools in southwest Detroit. Several charter schools opened in the area over the last two years.
Western International High School is the only district high school in southwest Detroit. In 2012, the district closed Southwestern High School.
In April the Education Achievement Authority announced plans to start a high school at Phoenix Academy, an existing school in southwest Detroit. But no final decision has been made, an EAA spokesman said.
thats a good ass look for the residents
But it's an auction. I doubt 100% of the residents bought their lots...where do the rest go? the city?